HOLEY MOLEY!

by Lyn Sirota

IMAGINE IT’S A summer afternoon at the beach. Your friends bury you in wet sand right up to your neck. Just as they finish patting the last bit of sand, you feel something. It’s itchy. Yikes. It’s tickling your rear end. No, it’s crawling up your bathing suit! You scream! You wiggle your way out and grab this thing out of your bathing suit with lightning speed. What is it? It looks like a cockroach or a gray beetle. It has ten legs. Holey moley—it’s a crab! It’s a mole crab. The Atlantic mole crab, which can be found along the coast from Massachusetts to Florida, is one of the smallest crabs. Females grow to only one to one and a half inches, and males grow to about half an…

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